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OIL COMPANY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oil company mean?
• OIL COMPANY (noun)
The noun OIL COMPANY has 1 sense:
1. a company that sells oil
Familiarity information: OIL COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A company that sells oil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("oil company" is a kind of...):
company (an institution created to conduct business)
Holonyms ("oil company" is a member of...):
oil business; oil industry; refining industry (an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products)
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